Bird-ger Kings

Human trash is a birds’ feast!  Or a last supper? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science.  Meet Andrea Townsend and colleagues from Hamilton College and UC Davis. They tested for differences in cholesterol levels, general health, and survival rates, between urban and rural baby crows.

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GNAW-tural Selection

Got a rodent problem? Here’s some GNAW-ledge to sink your teeth into! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Doctors Anderson Feijó and Alyssa Stringer at the Field Museum of Natural History gave us a SQUEAK peek into urban evolution. Skulls of rodents living in Chicago

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Muddy Boots

Feet of two people wearing raining boots jumping in the mud

You kids better not track that mud into the house! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science…remembering something my mother used to say. Or more like, yell! But science asks: Could dirt actually be GOOD for you? Marja Roslund from the University of Helsinki, Finland, and

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Field of Greens

The grass is always greener… and TALLER? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Perfect green lawn? It’s the American dream! Even in the cities, we do our best to keep the grass trimmed, but is this a GOOD thing? Christopher Watson at the University of Quebec

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